02-03-2018, 07:25 PM
Avmed good news story for a change - 
Via the Oz:
Airlines pool resources with CASA, college to train aviation doctors
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12:00amANNABEL HEPWORTH
A unique program to train doctors in aerospace medicine backed by the two biggest Australian carriers has generated strong interest.
Qantas, Virgin Australia, CASA and the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine are will select three medicos to rotate over a series of six to eight months through CASA and the two carriers, helping them to move through the college’s aerospace medicine specialist training pathway, under the new program.
CASA principal medical officer Michael Drane said the plan was to develop specialists with wide training.
“One of the things that is really important in this realm is it’s not just a case of having doctors who are academically excellent,” Dr Drane told The Australian. “You have to be able to translate that academic skill into the practical workplace. Pilots work in a funny office and it’s really important that the decisions we make are practical and workable in an operational situation.”
Qantas director of medical services Ian Hosegood said the program “gives us the opportunity to expand the research/work we are doing into pilot and cabin crew health”.
“With more people than ever before working in aviation and with passenger numbers ever increasing, aviation medicine is a specialised field and we’re very supportive of this program.”
Virgin Australia’s group medical officer David Powell said the participants believed the program was one of the first of its type in the world.
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Via the Oz:
Airlines pool resources with CASA, college to train aviation doctors
12:00amANNABEL HEPWORTHA unique program to train doctors in aerospace medicine backed by the two biggest Australian carriers has generated strong interest.
Qantas, Virgin Australia, CASA and the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine are will select three medicos to rotate over a series of six to eight months through CASA and the two carriers, helping them to move through the college’s aerospace medicine specialist training pathway, under the new program.
CASA principal medical officer Michael Drane said the plan was to develop specialists with wide training.
“One of the things that is really important in this realm is it’s not just a case of having doctors who are academically excellent,” Dr Drane told The Australian. “You have to be able to translate that academic skill into the practical workplace. Pilots work in a funny office and it’s really important that the decisions we make are practical and workable in an operational situation.”
Qantas director of medical services Ian Hosegood said the program “gives us the opportunity to expand the research/work we are doing into pilot and cabin crew health”.
“With more people than ever before working in aviation and with passenger numbers ever increasing, aviation medicine is a specialised field and we’re very supportive of this program.”
Virgin Australia’s group medical officer David Powell said the participants believed the program was one of the first of its type in the world.
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